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It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.

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Charles Colson
Age: 80 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 16
Died: 2012
Died: April 21
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Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.
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In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.
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Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview.
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The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!
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What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.
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God doesn't want our success He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements He demands our obedience.
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What we do flows from who we are.
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We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.
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That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced 'religious fanaticism' as a grave challenge to socialism failure to contain it, Pravda said, was at the root of the problems in Poland.
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The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.
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When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of a tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God's supreme triumph of good over evil.
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Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.
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Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
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The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
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I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.
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The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West is the story of the difference that Christianity makes, and it's a story we can't let our culture forget.
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You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
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... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.
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